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pots plunged in water, they readily tock root, and formed luxuriant 
plants. The name /r/onifera would have been peculiarly proper 
for it. 
This fpecies, when cultivated in a garden, rarely flowers. In 
a wild ftate I have never feen it with more than zwo female fpikes, | 
ufually with oze-only. 
35 CAREX PSEUDO-CYPERUS. 
.. C. vaginis fub-nullis, fpicis foemineis cylindricis pedunculatis pen- 
dulis, capfulis ariftato-roftratis fub-divaricatis, 
Uvedale, Herb. Rayan, vol. 12. p. 65. C. 
Píeudo-cyperus; Ger. em. 29. Park. 1266. 
Gramen cyperoides {pica Rendula hseyiori, Mor. Hif. Ox. IL, 
242, 1. 8. t. 132. f 5. 
Fl. Suecia. 854 Fl. Angl. 410. 
Fl. Scot. 550. Pollich. n. 891. Withering, 1045. 
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Habitat in nemorofis humidis, & ad ripas foffarum, Junio. 
Radix fibrofa, perennis. Folia pallidà viridia, lata, canaliculata, 
marginibus carinàque afperis, culmo feré duplo longiora, omnia 
longitudine ferè zqualia. Culmus pedalis & ultra, ad fummum ferè 
foliofus, erectus, triqueter, angulis acutis, afperis. Spice, una maf- 
cula, quatuor fœmineæ ; omnes lineares, tenues, pallida. Spica 
mafcula terminalis, fub-triquetra, bracteata, bracteà fetaceà, fpicà 
dimidio breviori; fquamis fub-fetaceis, pallidis, nervo dorfali viridi, 
ad apicem marginibué carinâque hifpidis. Spice foeminez pedun- 
culatz, pedunculo fpicà fuà longiori, teretes, fruétiferæ pendulz ; 
intermediæ geminata, cæteræ folitarie ; fquamæ ut in {pica maf- 
cula, capfulas fub-æquantes. Ad omnem fpicam foemineam brac- 
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